--- title: "Conference on Machine Translation: Research Papers 2018" description: "Conference on Machine Translation: Research Papers 2018 — accepted papers: 9 papers in the Elamur Research library (Brussels, Belgium)…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/conference-on-machine-translation-research-papers/2018/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/conference-on-machine-translation-research-papers/2018/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [venues](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/) / [Conference on Machine Translation…](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/conference-on-machine-translation-research-papers/) / 2018 # Conference on Machine Translation: Research Papers 2018 — accepted papers Conference on Machine Translation: Research Papers 2018 is the 2018 edition of the Conference on Machine Translation: Research Papers, held in Brussels, Belgium, October 2018 (publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics). OpenAlex lists 27 papers of it; our library holds 9 with our summaries. Below: the most cited papers, every accepted paper, and ours with their topics, authors and institutions. 📍 Brussels, [Belgium](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/countries/belgium/) · 🗓 October 2018 [**27** papers in the proceedings](#all) · [**9** works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/conference-on-machine-translation-research-papers/2018/#works) · [**6,070** citations of these works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/conference-on-machine-translation-research-papers/2018/#works) ## Most cited papers By their OpenAlex citations; a paper with our summary links to its page here, the others to the original. 1. **[A Call for Clarity in Reporting BLEU Scores](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/post-2018-call-clarity-reporting-bleu-scores/)**Matt Post · Research Papers*2,025 citations · our summary* 2. **[Scaling Neural Machine Translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/ott-2018-scaling-neural-machine-translation/)**Myle Ott, Sergey Edunov, David Grangier et al. · Research Papers*544 citations · our summary* 3. **[Attaining the Unattainable? Reassessing Claims of Human Parity in Neural Machine Translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/toral-2018-attaining-unattainable-reassessing-claims-human/)**Antonio Toral, Sheila Castilho, Ke Hu et al. · Research Papers*195 citations · our summary* 4. **[A neural interlingua for multilingual machine translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/lu-2018-neural-interlingua-multilingual-machine-translation/)**Yichao Lu, Phillip Keung, Faisal Ladhak et al. · Research Papers*128 citations · our summary* 5. **[Correcting Length Bias in Neural Machine Translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/murray-2018-correcting-length-bias-neural-machine/)**Kenton Murray, David Chiang · Research Papers*128 citations · our summary* 6. **[Using Monolingual Data in Neural Machine Translation: a Systematic Study ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W18-6315/)**Franck Burlot, François Yvon · Research Papers*115 citations* 7. **[Parameter Sharing Methods for Multilingual Self-Attentional Translation Models ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W18-6327/)**Devendra Sachan, Graham Neubig · Research Papers*114 citations* 8. **[Effective Parallel Corpus Mining using Bilingual Sentence Embeddings](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/guo-2018-effective-parallel-corpus-mining-bilingual/)**Mandy Guo, Qinlan Shen, Yinfei Yang et al. · Research Papers*104 citations · our summary* 9. **[An Analysis of Attention Mechanisms: The Case of Word Sense Disambiguation in Neural Machine Translation ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W18-6304/)**Gongbo Tang, Rico Sennrich, Joakim Nivre · Research Papers*99 citations* 10. **[Denoising Neural Machine Translation Training with Trusted Data and Online Data Selection](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/wang-2018-denoising-neural-machine-translation-training/)**Wei Wang, Taro Watanabe, Macduff Hughes et al. · Research Papers*67 citations · our summary* ## All accepted papers (27) The most cited first; 9 with our summary link to their page here, the others to the original. 1. **[A Call for Clarity in Reporting BLEU Scores](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/post-2018-call-clarity-reporting-bleu-scores/)**Matt Post · Research Papers*2,025 citations · our summary* 2. **[Scaling Neural Machine Translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/ott-2018-scaling-neural-machine-translation/)**Myle Ott, Sergey Edunov, David Grangier et al. · Research Papers*544 citations · our summary* 3. **[Attaining the Unattainable? Reassessing Claims of Human Parity in Neural Machine Translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/toral-2018-attaining-unattainable-reassessing-claims-human/)**Antonio Toral, Sheila Castilho, Ke Hu et al. · Research Papers*195 citations · our summary* 4. **[A neural interlingua for multilingual machine translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/lu-2018-neural-interlingua-multilingual-machine-translation/)**Yichao Lu, Phillip Keung, Faisal Ladhak et al. · Research Papers*128 citations · our summary* 5. **[Correcting Length Bias in Neural Machine Translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/murray-2018-correcting-length-bias-neural-machine/)**Kenton Murray, David Chiang · Research Papers*128 citations · our summary* 6. **[Using Monolingual Data in Neural Machine Translation: a Systematic Study ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W18-6315/)**Franck Burlot, François Yvon · Research Papers*115 citations* 7. **[Parameter Sharing Methods for Multilingual Self-Attentional Translation Models ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W18-6327/)**Devendra Sachan, Graham Neubig · Research Papers*114 citations* 8. **[Effective Parallel Corpus Mining using Bilingual Sentence Embeddings](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/guo-2018-effective-parallel-corpus-mining-bilingual/)**Mandy Guo, Qinlan Shen, Yinfei Yang et al. · Research Papers*104 citations · our summary* 9. **[An Analysis of Attention Mechanisms: The Case of Word Sense Disambiguation in Neural Machine Translation ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W18-6304/)**Gongbo Tang, Rico Sennrich, Joakim Nivre · Research Papers*99 citations* 10. **[Denoising Neural Machine Translation Training with Trusted Data and Online Data Selection](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/wang-2018-denoising-neural-machine-translation-training/)**Wei Wang, Taro Watanabe, Macduff Hughes et al. · Research Papers*67 citations · our summary* 11. **[Freezing Subnetworks to Analyze Domain Adaptation in Neural Machine Translation ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W18-6313/)**Brian Thompson, Huda Khayrallah, Antonios Anastasopoulos et al. · Research Papers*64 citations* 12. **[Simple Fusion: Return of the Language Model ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W18-6321/)**Felix Stahlberg, James Cross, Veselin Stoyanov · Research Papers*60 citations* 13. **[On The Alignment Problem In Multi-Head Attention-Based Neural Machine Translation ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W18-6318/)**Tamer Alkhouli, Gabriel Bretschner, Hermann Ney · Research Papers*59 citations* 14. **[Neural Machine Translation into Language Varieties ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W18-6316/)**Surafel Melaku Lakew, Aliia Erofeeva, Marcello Federico · Research Papers*55 citations* 15. **[Neural Machine Translation of Logographic Language Using Sub-character Level Information ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W18-6303/)**Longtu Zhang, Mamoru Komachi · Research Papers*53 citations* 16. **[Contextual Neural Model for Translating Bilingual Multi-Speaker Conversations ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W18-6311/)**Sameen Maruf, André F. T. Martins, Gholamreza Haffari · Research Papers*48 citations* 17. **[Trivial Transfer Learning for Low-Resource Neural Machine Translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/kocmi-2018-trivial-transfer-learning-low-resource/)**Tom Kocmi, Ondřej Bojar · Research Papers*43 citations · our summary* 18. **[Character-level Chinese-English Translation through ASCII Encoding ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W18-6302/)**Nikola I. Nikolov, Yuhuang Hu, Mi Xue Tan et al. · Research Papers*39 citations* 19. **[Coreference and Coherence in Neural Machine Translation: A Study Using Oracle Experiments](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/stojanovski-2018-coreference-coherence-neural-machine-translation/)**Dario Stojanovski, Alexander Fraser · Research Papers*30 citations · our summary* 20. **[Extracting In-domain Training Corpora for Neural Machine Translation Using Data Selection Methods ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W18-6323/)**Catarina Cruz Silva, Chao-Hong Liu, Alberto Poncelas et al. · Research Papers*22 citations* 21. **[Beyond Weight Tying: Learning Joint Input-Output Embeddings for Neural Machine Translation ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W18-6308/)**Nikolaos Pappas, Lesly Miculicich, James Henderson · Research Papers*15 citations* 22. **[Massively Parallel Cross-Lingual Learning in Low-Resource Target Language Translation ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W18-6324/)**Zhong Zhou, Matthias Sperber, Alexander Waibel · Research Papers*12 citations* 23. **[Input Combination Strategies for Multi-Source Transformer Decoder ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W18-6326/)**Jindřich Libovický, Jindřich Helcl, David Mareček · Research Papers*10 citations* 24. **[A Large-Scale Test Set for the Evaluation of Context-Aware Pronoun Translation in Neural Machine Translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/muller-2018-large-scale-test-set-evaluation/)**Mathias Müller, Annette Rios, Elena Voita et al. · Research Papers*8 citations · our summary* 25. **[Exploring gap filling as a cheaper alternative to reading comprehension questionnaires when evaluating machine translation for gisting ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W18-6320/)**Mikel L. Forcada, Carolina Scarton, Lucia Specia et al. · Research Papers*8 citations* [See all 27 papers in Conference on Machine Translation: Research Papers 2018 — accepted papers →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/conference-on-machine-translation-research-papers/2018/papers/) ## Papers with our summary in our library (9) The most cited first (OpenAlex citations plus our library's). 1. [**A Call for Clarity in Reporting BLEU Scores**Matt Post*2018 · 4,152 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/post-2018-call-clarity-reporting-bleu-scores/) 2. **[Scaling Neural Machine Translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/ott-2018-scaling-neural-machine-translation/) [Conference on Machine Translation: Research Papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/conference-on-machine-translation-research-papers/)**Myle Ott, Sergey Edunov, David Grangier, et al.*2018 · 826 citations* 3. **[Attaining the Unattainable? Reassessing Claims of Human Parity in Neural Machine Translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/toral-2018-attaining-unattainable-reassessing-claims-human/) [Conference on Machine Translation: Research Papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/conference-on-machine-translation-research-papers/)**Antonio Toral, Sheila Castilho, Ke Hu, et al.*2018 · 321 citations* 4. **[A neural interlingua for multilingual machine translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/lu-2018-neural-interlingua-multilingual-machine-translation/) [Conference on Machine Translation: Research Papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/conference-on-machine-translation-research-papers/)**Yichao Lu, Phillip Keung, Faisal Ladhak, et al.*2018 · 180 citations* 5. **[Effective Parallel Corpus Mining using Bilingual Sentence Embeddings](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/guo-2018-effective-parallel-corpus-mining-bilingual/) [Conference on Machine Translation: Research Papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/conference-on-machine-translation-research-papers/)**Mandy Guo, Qinlan Shen, Yinfei Yang, et al.*2018 · 167 citations* 6. **[Trivial Transfer Learning for Low-Resource Neural Machine Translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/kocmi-2018-trivial-transfer-learning-low-resource/) [Conference on Machine Translation: Research Papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/conference-on-machine-translation-research-papers/)**Tom Kocmi, Ondřej Bojar*2018 · 141 citations* 7. **[A Large-Scale Test Set for the Evaluation of Context-Aware Pronoun Translation in Neural Machine Translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/muller-2018-large-scale-test-set-evaluation/) [Conference on Machine Translation: Research Papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/conference-on-machine-translation-research-papers/)**Mathias Müller, Annette Rios, Elena Voita, et al.*2018 · 123 citations* 8. **[Denoising Neural Machine Translation Training with Trusted Data and Online Data Selection](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/wang-2018-denoising-neural-machine-translation-training/) [Conference on Machine Translation: Research Papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/conference-on-machine-translation-research-papers/)**Wei Wang, Taro Watanabe, Macduff Hughes, et al.*2018 · 114 citations* 9. **[Coreference and Coherence in Neural Machine Translation: A Study Using Oracle Experiments](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/stojanovski-2018-coreference-coherence-neural-machine-translation/) [Conference on Machine Translation: Research Papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/conference-on-machine-translation-research-papers/)**Dario Stojanovski, Alexander Fraser*2018 · 46 citations* ## Top topics Topics of its works in our library, with the number of works on each. [Machine translation (9)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/machine-translation/) · [Evaluation & benchmarks (3)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/evaluation-benchmarks/) · [Coreference resolution (2)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/coreference-resolution/) · [Multilingual & cross-lingual NLP (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multilingual-nlp/) · [Low-resource languages (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/low-resource-languages/) ## Fields [Arts and Humanities (9)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Computer Science (9)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) ## Top authors Authors with a page who published here most often: their works here, and the citations of those works. [🧑‍🔬**Matt Post**1 work here · 4,152 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/matt-post/) · [🧑‍🔬**David Grangier**1 work here · 826 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/david-grangier/) · [🧑‍🔬**Michael Auli**1 work here · 826 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/michael-auli/) · [🧑‍🔬**Myle Ott**1 work here · 826 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/myle-ott/) · [🧑‍🔬**Sergey Edunov**1 work here · 826 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sergey-edunov/) · [🧑‍🔬**Andy Way**1 work here · 321 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/andy-way/) · [🧑‍🔬**Antonio Toral**1 work here · 321 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/antonio-toral/) · [🧑‍🔬**Sheila Castilho**1 work here · 321 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sheila-castilho/) · [🧑‍🔬**Faisal Ladhak**1 work here · 180 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/faisal-ladhak/) · [🧑‍🔬**Phillip Keung**1 work here · 180 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/phillip-keung/) · [🧑‍🔬**Yichao Lu**1 work here · 180 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yichao-lu/) · [🧑‍🔬**Brian Strope**1 work here · 167 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/brian-strope/) ## Top institutions Institutions on the bylines of its works here, by the number of works. 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